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“I've known him a long time,” Trump said “We don't agree on everything. In this case I think it's good. I want a diversity of opinion … He backed me very early in the campaign, I think the earliest. I think he was one of my original backers. He's a very, very talented man.”

Tom, since Trump has delegated basically all his presidential powers to the military and the GOP establishment (let's face it, the Tax Plan was all McConnell and Ryan), what listening is required on his part?

Kudlow has two things going for him. He' was an early supporter of Trump and he is a TV celeb like Trump. This is a reality show, remember? That's the signal

Sadly, Tom, it is how you just described it.

Btw, Chris Cillizza of CNN got a lot of flack for saying the same thing in a column last week titled "Donald Trump is producing the greatest reality show ever," especially from the likes of a former CNN news host Soledad O'Brien.

Trump's idea of running started with trading some delegates for a sweet deal. When he had most of the delegates that turned into a corporate model with Trump as CEO playing golf while a host of underlings does all the "work". It took a while for him to see that the "underlings" (neocon deep state) are the bosses, but once he did he became absolutely compliant. Thus Pompeo is now SoS and Bolton ("nobody would notice if the top 11 floors of the UN were missing") is moving up.

The really scary thing is the parallel to Germany in the 1930's when the industrialists were funding Hitler and building a massive war machine using a scapegoat for justification. That didn't end well ... for Germany.